B.
GENERAL AND STATE FINANCES.
Statement of Moneys received into the Treasury from all sources, for the year 1832.
| Dollars. Cts. | ||
| From the Customs | 22,178,735 30 | |
| Public Lands | 2,623,381 03 | |
| From dividends on Stock in the Bank of the United States | 490,000 00 | |
| Sales of Stock in Bank of the United States | 169,000 00 | |
| Arrears of direct tax | 6,791 13 | |
| Arrears of internal revenue | 11,630 65 | |
| Fees on Letters Patent | 14,160 00 | |
| Cents coined at the Mint | 21,845 40 | |
| Fines, penalties, and forfeitures | 8,868 04 | |
| Surplus emoluments of officers of the Customs | 31,965 46 | |
| Postage on letters | 244 95 | |
| Consular receipts | 1,884 52 | |
| Interest on debts due by Banks to United States | 136 00 | |
| Persons unknown, said to be due to United States | 500 00 | |
| Moneys obtained from the Treasury on forged documents | 115 00 | |
| Moneys previously advanced for Biennial Register | 37 00 | |
| Securing Light-house on the Brandy-wine Shoal | 1,000 00 | |
| Light-house on Mahon's Ditch, Delaware | 4,975 00 | |
| Balance of advances in the War Department, repaid | 15,679 24 | |
| ————— | ||
| 119,832 39 | ||
| Deduction, &c. | 1,889 50 | |
| ————— | 117,942 89 | |
| —————— | ||
| 25,579,059 22 | ||
Statement of Expenditures of the United States, for 1832.
| Dollars. Cts. | |
| Civil, miscellaneous, and foreign intercourse | 4,577,141 45 |
| Military establishment | 7,982,877 03 |
| Naval establishment | 3,956,370 29 |
| —————— | |
| 16,516,388 77 |
Such were the expenses of the federal government of the United States, exclusive of the Debt, of which nearly 35,000,000 dollars were that year paid.
For the State of Connecticut, the same year, the receipts were,—
| Dollars. Cts. | |
| From interest on United States 3 per cents | 1,382 00 |
| Tax on non-resident owners of Bank stock | 2,817 00 |
| Avails of State prison | 5,000 00 |
| Dividends on Bank stock, owned by the State | 25,670 00 |
| Fines and miscellaneous receipts | 7,448 00 |
| State tax | 37,984 00 |
| ————— | |
| 80,301 00 | |
| Disbursements were— | |
| For ordinary expenses of government | 60,852 00 |
| For public buildings and institutions | 10,774 00 |
| ————— | |
| 71,626 00 | |
Population in 1830,—297,665.
I will give also the receipts and expenditure of one of the largest and busiest of the States, with a population (in 1830) of 1,348,233.
PENNSYLVANIA. 1832 AND 1833.
| Receipts. | |
| Ds. Cts. | |
| Lands and Land-office fees | 48,379 64 |
| Auction commissions and duties | 94,738 08 |
| Dividends on various stock | 171,765 20 |
| Tax on bank dividends | 45,404 91 |
| Tax on offices | 14,399 51 |
| Tax on writs, &c. | 24,771 00 |
| Fees, Secretary of State's office | 728 33 |
| Tavern licenses | 52,267 16 |
| Duties on dealers in foreign merchandise | 61,480 86 |
| State maps | 131 30 |
| Collateral inheritances | 160,626 26 |
| Pamphlet laws | 96 26 |
| Militia and exempt fines | 1,693 00 |
| Tin and clock pedlars' licences | 2,461 93 |
| Hawkers' and pedlars' licences | 3,025 45 |
| Increase of county rates and levies | 185,177 32 |
| Tax on personal property | 43,685 37 |
| Escheats | 1,746 99 |
| Canal tolls | 151,419 69 |
| Loans, and premiums on loans | 2,875,638 72 |
| Premiums on Bank charters | 102,297 90 |
| Old debts and miscellaneous | 5,119 74 |
| —————— | |
| 4,047,054 62 | |
| Expenditures. | |
| Ds. Cts. | |
| Internal improvements | 2,588,879 13 |
| Expenses of government | 212,940 95 |
| Militia expenses | 20,776 99 |
| Pensions and gratuities | 29,303 21 |
| Education | 7,954 48 |
| House of Refuge | 5,000 00 |
| Interest on loans | 94,317 47 |
| Pennsylvania claimants | 351 00 |
| State maps | 187 30 |
| Internal improvement fund | 755,444 01 |
| Penitentiary at Philadelphia | 44,312 50 |
| Penitentiary near Pittsburg | 23,047 75 |
| Conveying convicts | 1,350 22 |
| Conveying fugitives | 581 50 |
| Miscellaneous | 12,187 97 |
| Defence of the State | 160 00 |
| —————— | |
| 3,796,794 48 | |
NORTH CAROLINA.
| Receipts, for 1832, 3 | 188,819 97 |
| Disbursements | 138,867 46 |
Population in 1830,—737,987.